Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Colliding Worlds 6. Fat Molly

Colliding Worlds 6 Fat Molly

I love to play with colliding worlds. It sounds violent, but it's just another name for networlds. I write quite a lot of stories in different series, genres and at different levels. Sometimes, just for fun, I let my worlds collide.

Some other colliding worlds posts have been about characters or objects from one of my books showing up in a book from a different series. Others are more of a case of reality intruding on fiction. That's what happened when my husband I were writing the Jack Russell series. Our daughter-in-law owned a cat, known to her family as Fat Molly. What can I say? We totally stole the name. That's all.

The real Fat Molly was black. In the Jack series, Fat Molly is a white cat who belongs to Kitty Booker, the librarian. Here's a small excerpt featuring Molly, Jack, the narrator, and Jack's pal Foxie. Auntie Tidge is Foxie's owner and Jack's second favourite person at this time.